Participatory action research with self-help/mutual aid organizations for psychiatric consumer/survivors is reviewed. We begin by tracing the origins of and defining both participatory action research and self-help/mutual aid. In so doing, the degree of correspondence between the assumptions/values of participatory action research and those of self-help/mutual aid for psychiatric consumer/survi...

This article is part of the series on African primary care research and focuses on participatory action research. The article gives an overview of the emancipatory-critical research paradigm, the key characteristics and different types of participatory action research. Following this it describes in detail the methodological issues involved in professional participatory action research and runn...

The key epistemological assumption in participatory research is the belief that knowledge is embedded in the lives and experiences of individuals and that knowledge is developed only through a cooperative process between researchers and experiencing individuals. There are various notions about the nature and processes of participation in this type of research. This paper focuses on specific pro...

In the field of participatory locative media practices the research aims to construct an experimental ground on which to problematize the process of mapping contemporary Indigenous memories of an Australian urban landscape within the cultural, spatial, social and technological issues that arise from collecting, classifying, re-situating, enacting and reinterpreting on territory archives of loca...

the following study aims to present an innovative approach for design. participatory design is the model of direct involvement of different social groups in the design from functional tools to environments, social institutions and businesses. diverse collection of practices has been developed to support this direct involvement by participatory design. people are invited to participate during di...